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At least two people were arrested during an anti-jihadist operation in southern France that was still ongoing early Tuesday, a security source said. The operation took place in the small town of Lunel east of Montpellier in southern France, from where around 20 young people have left for Syria. Six of them, aged 18 to […]
The decapitated body of a journalist who was abducted by armed men three weeks ago has been discovered in the east of Mexico. Officials claimed that a former police officer had admitted carrying the killing of the reporter at the request of the town’s mayor. Officials said the mutilated body of Moises Sanchez was discovered […]
The United Nations main development programme spotlighted today its string of successes in 36 countries and territories in the Asia and Pacific region in the areas of poverty reduction, conservation of natural resources, democratic governance, and crisis resilience. Launched by the UN Development Program (UNDP), the Asia-Pacific Regional Report Achieving Development Results in Asia and […]
Daesh radio confirmed on Sunday that its terrorists have executed Japanese security contractor Haruna Yukawa, following the release of a video announcing the hostage’s death, according to AFP. “Daesh has carried out its threat… it has executed Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa after the expiry of the deadline given,” the Sunni extremist group said on Al-Bayan […]
Hundreds of Spaniards rallied in Madrid on Saturday accusing the government of betraying them by allowing the release of jailed convicts from the armed Basque separatist group ETA. It was the first major demonstration by victims’ groups on the sensitive issue of imprisoned ETA members in 2015, a year of regional and national elections. Under […]
Forty people have died in protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo against President Joseph Kabila, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday, accusing security forces of using excessive force and then trying to remove evidence. The number of people who have died in DR Congo over the past week in demonstrations against a bill that […]
Angry residents are blocking access for health workers to dozens of remote villages in Guinea, in a sign of persistent mistrust that could threaten President Alpha Conde’s aim to eradicate Ebola from the country by early March. The worst Ebola outbreak on record began deep in the forests of southeastern Guinea in December 2013 and […]
A new armed group is on the rise in Mexico’s violence-wracked Michoacan state. It’s called Los Viagras, and its members say they are fighting for “social causes”. The shadowy group is nevertheless also trying to take over old strongholds of a drug cartel on the decline, the Knights Templar. In the mountains, members of Los […]
Stay away from the windows, don’t come out of hiding until the shootout is over and keep your hands visible to police at all times. That is the advice Brazil’s Red Cross is offering the embattled residents of Rio’s slums when urban violence breaks out on their doorstep. Rio’s Red Cross chairman Luiz Alberto Sampaio […]
German police Thursday arrested and searched the homes of two suspected members of the extremist Daesh group who had returned from Syria, authorities said. The two German nationals, identified as Mustafa C., 26, and 27-year-old Sebastian B., were detained on charges of having joined a foreign terror organisation, the federal prosecutor’s office said. It said […]
